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CVE-2002-2018

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2018 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in sastcpd within SAS/Base 8.0 and SAS Integration Technologies. An attacker can exploit this by manipulating the netencralg environment variable, leading to a segmentation fault and potential privilege gain. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its low attack complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sas:base:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sas:integration_technologies:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 3,235 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/253183
securitytracker.com / id
sas.com / service/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004201.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/3995